Friday’s Headlines

How many have to die before traffic safety will be taken seriously? Businesses actually like bike lanes; Bill withdrawn after lobbyist tells a journalist it was a ruse; More

By Melanie Curry

8:29 AM PDT on July 7, 2023

Memorial to pedestrian 43-year-old Hua Xu Li, killed by the driver in West Covina, Calif. Source: Waltarrr, CC

How many people have to die before traffic deaths are taken seriously? (Vox)
Businesses are recognizing the benefits of bike lanes (Bloomberg)
Middle-aged parents break free from the shackles of car dependence (Urbanism Speakeasy)
Budget deal restores threatened funding for Active Transportation Program (CalBike)
Bill adds another representative from Elk Grove to the Sacramento transit board (Sacramento Bee)
Newsom announces $352 million for transit-oriented housing (Davis Vanguard, Center Square)
Bill to create rules for carbon capture pulled after being exposed as a ruse (Capital and Main)
Air Resources Board and truck makers finalize a deal on zero emission trucks (CalMatters)
Fewer cars are crossing the Golden Gate Bridge (SF Chronicle)

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Melanie Curry

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Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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